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Bad Dog
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What’s Your Dog’s
Are you rewarding misbehaviour?
Brain Age?
Think Like a Dog
Table Scraps The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Bring out your inner pooch
What Is It About Pit Bulls?
FREE STUFF! page 37
Crime + Punishment Does punishment have a role in modern dog training? SPR
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Maggie Q
The Nikita star kicks butt for animals
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PHOTO SHOW DOGS BY KATE LACEY
FEATURES 30
Think Like Your Dog How to bring out the pooch in you.
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When the Clock Strikes Twelve Petfinder.com’s Betsy Saul on a New Year’s resolution that changed the world.
ILLUSTRATION MARIAH BURTON
BY STEVE DUNO
BY MARY-JO DIONNE
98 Mine Detections Dogs Dog handlers and the mine detection dogs they work with are making the world safer, one square meter at a time. BY COREY VAN’T HAAF
48 The Savage American Legion Wiener Dog Nationals 108 A day at the races: a photostory. BY MAX HAYNES 52 Protect Your Dog’s Mind From the Effects of Aging How to offset mental decline in your dog. BY STANLEY COREN 41 58 In Service Meet six amazing assistance dogs. 83 PHOTOGRAPHED BY TANYA KING 78 Canine Cancer Detectives Researchers have uncovered a surprising new tool 136 in the fight against cancer: dogs. BY SARA LIMA 84 Meet Maggie Q The Nikita star kicks butt, both on screen and for animal adoption. BY KARIN MAXEY
Dogs of India Vets Without Borders assists in the efforts to eradicate rabies and help local dogs in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
THE GOODS
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What Is It About Pit Bulls Cast as meanies, these misunderstood dogs face a harsh reality, both on the streets and in shelters. BY ROSE FROSEK
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Barking Good Buys Fab finds under $30. Style at Home Dog is in the details. Essentials for the well appointed canine-inclusive home. Spring Fever From cool tees to a German Shepherd-styled outdoor speaker, we’ve rounded up products to help you make the most of the season.
BREED PROFILE 26
The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel From court to couch. BY MARIAN BUECHERT
LIVING
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PHOTO MAX HAYNES
BODY AND SOUL 64 An Easier Way to Diagnose Allergies It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s...Thundershirt! Pet Proof Your Yard 66 Health Checks for UK Show Dogs No-touch Temperature Taking Virtual Vets
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Stuff We Love Modern Dog staffers’ picks of the litter.
37 We’re Giving it Away Three months worth of fantastic giveaways are up for grabs. 38 Rewarding Bad Habits Are you inadvertently encouraging your dog’s bad behaviour? BY COLLEEN SAFFORD 46
DIY Eat Have a treat hound on your hands? Whip up these simple—and simply delicious—canine-approved snacks requiring just four ingredients or less!
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Training and Punishment Does punishment have a place in training your dog? BY JENNIFER MESSER
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Bark! For Life! Fresh, Regional Dog Food Joint Pain? Try Stem Cell Therapy
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DIY Craft Make your own patchwork Scottie Dog pillow.
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Ask a Vet Vitamin C and hip dysplasia, plus that “guilty” look.
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The Do’s and Don’t of Sharing Food with Your Dog Sharing food from the table can be great for your dog’s health. BY ELIZABETH PASK AND LAURA SCOTT
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Art Attack With heavy strokes and a lot of colour, Dyanna Bruno gives the pooches she paints a Pop Art treatment.
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Dogs of Glee Glee stars love their dogs!
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Pup Profiles Meet this issue’s selection of super, smiling dogs.
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Your Dog Did What? Readers share their most embarassing moments.
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Housetraining How-To Reforming the bathroom habits of an adult dog.
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Help for the Fearful Dog Tips for helping a scared dog to relax.
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Tackling Separation Anxiety Diagnosing and dealing with separation anxiety.
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Connie’s Book Club Curl up with a good dog and a good book. Great reads chosen by Editor-in-Chief Connie Wilson.
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Ask Dog Lady Dog Lady delves into your most dogged dilemmas.
83 REGULAR FEATURES 6 Editor’s Letter 8 Contributors 10 Our Readers Write 14 The Scoop 22 Calendar of Events 24 Smile! Photo Contest 127 Marketplace
COVER LOOK
Maggie Q, star of the CW series Nikita, with her rescued Shepherd cross, Lady Bird. Photographed by Michael Brian. Hair by Richard Marin for Cloutier Remix. Makeup by Kara Bua.
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BY DENYSE SCHMIDT
BY MARNI WEDIN
BY INGER MARTINS
BY NICOLE WILDE
BY TEOTI ANDERSON
BY MONICA COLLINS
In USA: MODERN DOG (ISSN 1703-812X) Volume 10, Issue 1. Published quarterly by Modern Dog Inc. at 142 Churchill Drive, Newington, CT 06111-4003. Periodicals postage paid at Hartford, CT and additional offices. POSTMASTER: send address changes to Modern Dog, PO Box 310402, Newington, CT 06131-0402.
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ave you ever noticed that once you have an earnest desire to accomplish a goal, unexpected opportunities cross your path, helping you make it happen? Well, recently, that very thing happened to me. Upon consciously realizing just how much I missed the daily walks I used to take with my Kaya girl who passed on a little over a year ago now, I knew in my heart that it was time to get another dog. I started my search on Petfinder.com, narrowing my search to dogs available in just my area, but bouncing between large and small breeds, unable to decide on even the important starting point of size. I’ve always been a big-dog person, drawn to hound-type dogs like pointers and spaniels, but with my busy lifestyle, I was, for the first time in my life, entertaining the idea of a smaller dog. I was sure of one thing, though; big or small, my new dog would be a rescue. I went to see Daisy, an adoptable Bassett Hound with personality plus, but her health issues coupled with separation anxiety and barking were more than I felt I could handle. Next was Bubbles, a Wirehaired German Pointer, whose over-abundant energy helped me realize that a smaller, less rambunctious dog would definitely be a better fit. Harvey, a darling Beagle boy, neither too big nor too small and still puppy-like at 10 months, could have been a good candidate, but prior to meeting him, I heard the news that would lead me to my new dog: the Victoria SPCA had just brought in a number of Wirehaired Dachshunds belonging to a breeder who had simply disappeared, leaving her dogs behind. Receiving this call was, I believe, destiny stepping in to orches-
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trate the choice I should make. These dogs, all six to ten years of age and all, as I was soon to learn, scruffily adorable, were going up for adoption the very next day. Word of my dog-quest had filtered on down through the rescue grapevine, resulting in the fortuitous call. Further facilitating this out-of-town adoption was dogfriendly Harbour Air that could fly us over to Victoria the very next morning. It seemed meant to be. The following day found me in the Victoria SPCA’s gym surrounded by eight unbelievably cute Wirehaired Dachshunds. Now came the difficult decision: how on earth would I choose just one? We were there for nearly four hours hanging out and playing with the dogs. They were all so sweet, but I finally decided on a snuggler with beseeching eyes, an affectionate and playful disposition, and an appearance somewhat like a mini-Cocker Spaniel, what with her shaved coat and lion’s tail. I named her Penny after the shelter’s wonderful manager. With my decision made, it was a mad dash to complete the paperwork and rush back to the harbour to catch our flight home. In just six hours, I had finally taken the leap and committed to a new dog, allowing myself to put the sorrow of losing Kaya behind me and let my heart awaken to the love of a new companion. I suppose that’s what life is all about, endings and beginnings, and nothing better symbolizes this than the unfurling of spring and our delight in seeing nature awaken from her winter slumber. Duly inspired by the season, the spring issue of Modern Dog is brimming with life, too. For starters, we’ve got another three months of fantastic giveaways (p 37). After entering, turn to page 30 to embrace your inner pooch with the help of Steve Duno’s advice on how to think like your dog. Plus, there’s hilarious reader-submitted embarrassing moments (p 111), a look at table scraps (the good, the bad, and the ugly), fab finds for the home, an exploration of whether punishment has a role in Modern Dog training (p 91), an exclusive interview and photo shoot with the amazing actress and devoted animal welfare campaigner, Maggie Q, and so much more! Armed with such inspiration, we hope you’ll get out there with your dog and make the very most of the season.
Constance Wilson Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Everything natural—every flower, tree, and animal—has important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen. —From Guardians of Being by Eckhart Tolle and Patrick McDonnell
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Bethany Obrecht makes her Modern Dog debut in this issue, photographing the dogs in “What Is It About Pit Bulls?” (page 92). Bethany attended the Rhode Island School of Design for photography, then became involved in fostering dogs for Posh Pets Rescue in New York City, bringing shelter dogs into her apartment and helping them find forever homes. Through seeing all the dogs in cages at the shelters, she was inspired to photograph the dogs to help raise awareness and save lives. Bethany is also the owner of Found My Animal (foundmyanimal. com), a company that makes accessories for adopted animals and their people. They donate 25 percent of their proceeds to rescue.
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Ask author and photographer Max Haynes and he’ll tell you he has the perfect job—he works for dogs. His website, TinyDogTales.com, chronicles the adventures of his two Dachshunds, Sparky and Luna, as well as the not-so-secret lives of other dogs. Max is also the creator of PoochEcards.com, an e-card site where you can upload your own pooch into any card. His mission is to increase awareness of organizations that improve the lives of dogs. In this issue, Max’s dog’s-eye-view photo-story of a National Wiener Dog Championship race (page 48) is the very epitome of low-flying fun.
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With this issue, artist Mariah Burton makes her debut in Modern Dog. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Illustration from Sheridan College and also studied Visual Art at the University of Victoria. In addition to illustrating for magazines, she is the illustrator of two published children’s books, Somewhere Where Nobody Knows and Folk Tales from Near and Afar. She lives in Guelph, Ontario near some lovely parks and trails. Although she doesn’t own a dog, she can certainly relate to them because she really likes to frolic. See Mariah’s work on page 30.
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